147 points

Bosses love to think that they know it all, but they operate on limited info like everybody else. This just shows how stupid it is to work hard for a job, when everything is based on impressions and not on any kind of objective measures.

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One time I spent an hour restacking four small pallets into one big pallet. Managera come through and one of them says, “hey wow, looks much cleaner in here, good work today!”

Anyways I got a promotion a few months later.

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107 points

I’ve seen unproductive people succeed simply because they show up early and leave late while doing less than average work. It’s all about appearances.

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34 points

It’s a dumb system for dumb people and I hate it.

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Hard working unproductive people become in time hard working productive people. Lazy productive people become in time lazy unproductive people. Skill issue on your side tbh.

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6 points

Hey thanks for your assessment of my skill without knowing the first thing about me. Hard working is something else than just being in the office every day from 8 to 6.

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14 points

Neither of those things is true

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Please don’t question this merit-dualism. I need it as my moral compass in these ever-expanding, complicated, almost mystical realms of the markets.

– Calvinism or liberalism or smth (I don’t know I’m not a priest)

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8 points

This has got to be one of the worst arguments I’ve seen in a while. Congratulations.

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5 points

Spending 50-100% more time doing something because you are slow/taking breaks/chatting is being unproductive.

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I work hard for myself at work. To know my day and time wasn’t wasted. I also try to learn something new every day. If I’m gonna be a wage slave I’m gonna be a smart wage slave.

…wait.

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4 points

I only work hard for myself. Contributing to open source bcoz that is the one that gives me satisfaction, even if not the money.

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72 points

It’s a running joke where I work just how hard it is to get fired. One of the few stories I know of someone who was fired involved an employee for whom my employer paid multiple times for courses of rehab. He was finally fired when after all that they found him at his desk so drunk they basically couldn’t wake him at all.

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37 points

That’s sad.

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17 points

Similar stuff happens at my job. Only thing people really get fired for is getting into fights.

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38 points

I once saw a truck driver not get fired for getting caught for the second time stealing meat (whole carcasses) from the truck.

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4 points

where do you work?

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On my first job, there were several employees whose jobs was to aimlessly wander around the office because they had a problem with their logins when they were hired and nobody bothered to fix it for them. Companies really don’t give a shit.

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36 points

He costanzed it

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5 points

Lame. Dude just reinvented the wheel

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39 points

Does everyone in this thread work in a warehouse?

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9 points

I work for a werehouse.

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7 points

I work at a whorehouse

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1 point

I have a question

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2 points

Can it wait until the next full moon?

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13 points

What work would even in concept make this possible?

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Ssh.

But honestly, I could see this in pretty much any office setting, including mine. My boss will go whole days stuck in meetings, so I’ll only see them if I get in really early or stay late. If I’m missing all day, people would assume I’m also in meetings or something, because we work with remote teams and half of my team is remote.

I’m a software engineer, but this could work for almost any office job, especially those in cubicles.

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